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I've been mulling this over for a day- article just didn't sit right with me - Now is Mike John just blowing smoke to make the Aussies happy- or is the millions of checkoff and promotion dollars being spent over in Japan being used to help the Aussie trade too- and we will pick up the scraps :???: ....
What we should be doing is sending them M-COOL labeled USA BEEF- BSE tested if thats what sells, Promoting USA born and raised BEEF, and taking back the market that Australia has built...
Sounds to me like Mike Johns and the NCBA folk have bought into the Multinational Packers global beef world hook, line, and sinker...
Very sad when a "supposed US cattle organization" refuses to promote US beef
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US vows not to compete over Japanese beef market
ABC Rural
Tuesday, 17/10/2006
Australia
The United States beef industry has pledged to try to expand the Japanese beef market, rather than take market share from Australia.
Australia is currently hosting beef producers from the United States, Canada, Mexico and New Zealand for the annual five nation beef talks.
The president of the US National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Mike John, says they would rather grow a contracted Japanese beef market than compete against Australia.
"I don't really look at it as a competitive issue, I think that the entire beef consumption is down in Japan - I mean regardless of where the beef comes from," he said.
"So I think together if we work at getting the consumer demand back up for beef we will all benefit from that and so it isn't as much competition as it is getting the Japanese used to eating beef."
abc.net.au
What we should be doing is sending them M-COOL labeled USA BEEF- BSE tested if thats what sells, Promoting USA born and raised BEEF, and taking back the market that Australia has built...
Sounds to me like Mike Johns and the NCBA folk have bought into the Multinational Packers global beef world hook, line, and sinker...
Very sad when a "supposed US cattle organization" refuses to promote US beef
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US vows not to compete over Japanese beef market
ABC Rural
Tuesday, 17/10/2006
Australia
The United States beef industry has pledged to try to expand the Japanese beef market, rather than take market share from Australia.
Australia is currently hosting beef producers from the United States, Canada, Mexico and New Zealand for the annual five nation beef talks.
The president of the US National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Mike John, says they would rather grow a contracted Japanese beef market than compete against Australia.
"I don't really look at it as a competitive issue, I think that the entire beef consumption is down in Japan - I mean regardless of where the beef comes from," he said.
"So I think together if we work at getting the consumer demand back up for beef we will all benefit from that and so it isn't as much competition as it is getting the Japanese used to eating beef."
abc.net.au